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  • PublicationAccès libre
    Entre puissance et diplomatie : les États-Unis à la croisée des chemins
    (Presses de l'Université Laval, 2008-01-01) Kimball, Anessa; Paquin, Jonathan
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    What Canada could learn from US defence procurement : issues, best practices and recommendations
    (Calgary: School of Policy Studies, 2015-04-06) Kimball, Anessa
    Despite differences in scale, Canada and the U.S. face common challenges in military procurement and there is much Canada can learn as both countries pursue reforms. The U.S. employs a system of systems approach, based on requirements, resource allocation and acquisition. The process begins with the Joint Capabilities and Development System, focused on identifying and prioritizing needs and assessing alternatives. This is followed by the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System, which leads to the creation of a budget and provides guidance for the project’s execution. The third and final step is the Defense Acquisition System, which oversees the development and purchase of the new equipment. While deceptively simple in summary, U.S. defence procurement is dogged by problems — particularly cost overruns, a surfeit of key players and delayed schedules which degrade troops’ performance in the field. Additionally, the defence products market is restricted, inevitably limiting competition, encouraging misbehaviour on the part of business and driving up prices. The DoD is in the midst of consultations with contractors and Congress is undertaking an effort to rewrite acquisition laws. But the most pressing questions remain: Does a best procurement practice exist? If so, what criteria define it? In light of Canada’s new Defence Procurement Strategy (DPS), some lessons are clear. Further analysis is needed to figure out whether reforms can succeed in so narrow a marketplace. More attention must be paid to shaping contracts and clarifying expectations about sticking to schedules. And Ottawa must think carefully about the military’s needs, as it pushes ahead with the DPS. In surveying change at the DoD, this brief draws pointed conclusions to which Canada’s defence planners must pay heed, if they’re to leave the military stronger than they found it.
  • PublicationAccès libre
    Les États-Unis changement de cap en politique étrangère
    (Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2009-01-01) Kimball, Anessa; Paquin, Jonathan
  • PublicationAccès libre
    Les organisations internationales : des acteurs dans les conflits
    (Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2010-01-01) Kimball, Anessa; Lewis, Saëd'Nhir Irving; Fortmann, Michel; Hervouet, Gérard
    En tant qu’acteurs, les organisations internationales (OI) jouent une variété de rôle dans les conflits et les crises; de la consolidation de la paix à son imposition, en passant par son observation . Cependant, il existe très peu d’analyses qui leurs sont consacrées en tant qu’acteurs dans ces conflits et crises . Si ce manque de recherches n’est pas surprenant en soi compte tenu de l’importance attribuée aux États comme acteurs principaux du système international (SI) par l’approche réaliste, un examen des OI comme acteurs en conflits/crises est bénéfique pour ceux qui s’inscrivent dans la perspective institutionnaliste. Partant de là, ce chapitre offre une analyse de la multitude des tâches enterprises par les OI dans les conflits et les crises tout au long de ces dernières années. Il est organisé comme suit: la première section explore pourquoi les États les utilisent selon plusieurs perspectives théoriques en Relations Internationales (RI); la deuxième examine le spectre entier des activités de ces institutions dans les processus conflictuels et crisogènes; la troisième dresse un portrait des mécanismes institutionnels régulant leur comportement dans le SI et des contraintes qui affectent leur capacité d’opération; et la dernière offre un panorama de plusieurs de leurs missions récemment terminées et en cours.
  • PublicationRestreint
    Political survival, policy distribution, and alliance formation
    (Sage, 2010-06-07) Kimball, Anessa
    Existing work cannot explain why countries form alliances when direct security threats are not a key political issue, though we know countries routinely do engage in that behavior. Countries form alliances to manage the essential problem that they must use finite budget resources to provide social policy and national security; the ‘guns versus butter’ dilemma. States ally to ‘contract out’ national security via the formation of alliance contracts so they can allocate more resources to domestic concerns. Alliances increase the efficiency of security policy by providing the same level of security with fewer resources, thus freeing those resources for use in other domains. Not only should alliances form when security threats do not dominate the political agenda, but also domestic political and economic demands will influence alliance decisions. In positing a domestic politics-based explanation for alliance formation, this article argues that increased demands for social policy goods increase the chances of alliance formation as leaders seek greater policy allocation efficiency. The use of a production possibilities frontier illustrates the central argument. Those claims are examined on a sample of all country-years from 1816—2000 using a probit model. Empirical results suggest changes in the demand for social policy goods, operationalized as changes in the infant mortality rate, are an important cause of alliance behavior.
  • PublicationAccès libre
    La délégation à l’épreuve du terrain : les difficiles interventions militaires et civiles des organisations internationales dans les conflits et les crises
    (Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 2011-01-01) Kimball, Anessa; Lewis, Saëd'Nhir Irving
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    Examining informal defence and security arrangements' legalization : Canada-US agreements, 1955-2005
    (Sage, 2017-08-24) Kimball, Anessa
    This article presents and examines a model of legalization on an original dataset of informal Canadian–US defence and security arrangements (DSA) formed between 1955 and 2005. Non-treaty arrangements permit US presidents to bypass Senate ratification, resulting in expediency and secrecy, both assets in defence and security relations. That withstanding, informal arrangements contain provisions responding to certain strategic problems. They detail aspects of legalization: delegation; obligations; and precision. Leaders select informal arrangements to incur fewer public commitments, but design them to ensure credibility. In that context, what factors shape informal DSA legalization? Propositions developed from delegation and rational institutionalist arguments identify the factors influencing informal DSA legalization. The Canada–US case is germane due to its “rules-based” nature and heterogeneity. An original dataset of the legal design of eighty-two bilateral DSA is introduced and analyzed. Results confirm cabinet shuffles and unified governments decrease DSA legalization while Democrat presidents and rising military threats increase it.
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    Alliance formation and conflict initiation : the missing link
    (Sage Publications, 2006-07-01) Kimball, Anessa
    Existing research on the connection between alliance formation and conflict initiation has explicitly focused on the direct effect of alliances on conflict by including some measure of alliance behavior as an independent variable in models of conflict behavior. Existing research misspecifies the relationship between alliances and conflict, because alliance formation and conflict initiation are shaped by many of the same factors (in particular, regime type and capabilities), and alliance formation decisions are endogenous to conflict initiation decisions. Thus, alliance formation and conflict initiation should be modeled in a system of equations where a set of variables shapes alliance formation and conflict directly, and indirectly affects conflict through the decision to ally. The author estimates a two-equation probit model that accounts for the endogenous nature of alliance formation decisions and, thus, for the indirect effects of variables like regime and power on conflict. Results suggest that the effect of regime on alliance behavior differs across time periods. Finally, the model provides evidence that the total effects of variables like power and regime on conflict are, in fact, mediated by how those variables influence the decision to ally.
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    A new dataset on infant mortality rates, 1816-2002
    (International Peace Research Institute, 2007-11-01) Abouharb, M. Rodwan; Kimball, Anessa
    Systematic data on annual infant mortality rates are of use to a variety of social science research programs in demography, economics, sociology, and political science. Infant mortality rates may be used both as a proxy measure for economic development, in lieu of energy consumption or GDP-per-capita measures, and as an indicator of the extent to which governments provide for the economic and social welfare of their citizens. Until recently, data were available for only a limited number of countries based on regional or country-level studies and time periods for years after 1950. Here, the authors introduce a new dataset reporting annual infant mortality rates for all states in the world, based on the Correlates of War state system list, between 1816 and 2002. They discuss past research programs using infant mortality rates in conflict studies and describe the dataset by exploring its geographic and temporal coverage. Next, they explain some of the limitations of the dataset as well as issues associated with the data themselves. Finally, they suggest some research areas that might benefit from the use of this dataset. This new dataset is the most comprehensive source on infant mortality rates currently available to social science researchers.